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All that was known to the Greeks about
Egyptian science is to be found in the writ-
ings of Diodorus Siculus. But confirma-
tory and more authentic facts have been
derived from late explorations. Thus we
learn from E. B. Knobel[2] about the Jew-
ish calendar dates, on records of land sales
in Aramaic papyri at Assuan, translated by
Professor A. H. Sayce and A. E. Cowley,
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